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I’m moving my work blog to: http://dotedu.wordpress.com/

Why? The server - pages.slc.edu - has been attacked by hackers in the past and recently I learned that my wordpress installation has been tampered with by someone. All my content has been imported into http://dotedu.wordpress.com/. Stop by and/or update your feeds.

GP

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I am presently working with a colleague to implement the Rock the Vote ‘widget’ onto the library web page. This was initiated in the hopes of reaching more SLC students, faculty, and staff to register to vote. The choice of the library page was made based on the default image used for all computers on the Academic network. The default page on all browsers is our library page - slc.edu/library.

With this in mind all students, faculty, and staff using a computer on the Academic network will see the Rock the Vote logo the moment they launch a web browser.

Additionally, a Rock the Vote logo will be placed on MySLC (our ERP and LMS), pending approval from certain key administration. This will put the opportunity to register to vote in front of the entire SLC community in every web browser launched and any time students, faculty, or staff access MySLC to check their bill, schedule, look for jobs, search for a class, faculty, or staff member, etc.

For tracking purposes a Rock the Vote account was created to track all registrations on the library page, a second account will be created to track all registrations on MySLC.

SLC may not have a large population but in the present political era we hope for all of our community to take part (regardless of their political affiliation). If you’re a member of the SLC community, please spread the word to register and more importantly, to vote in November!

Tags: library, lms, myslc, students, vote, website, widget

Wireless access has been expanded at SLC and there is more to come.

Students have been coming to campus with Apple computers in large numbers.

This summer Apple is giving away a free iPod Touch during their Back-to-School promotion.

I see many benefits (ex:What new uses will Instructional Technologists consider?) but there may also be some pitfalls. Some quick thoughts:

• How will wireless network hold up?
• Will students use the device in of class?
• Will students use the device outside of class?
• How will members of the faculty react?
• What new applications should SLC consider?
• Will this change the campus culture?
• Will this change the online culture?

I know there are more topics to consider but I’ve another workshop to attend. Thoughts and/or ideas are welcome.

Tags: apple, classroom, faculty, free, ipod, staff, students, wifi

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Three major topics stood out during the 2008 NITLE Summit.

1 - Strategic Plan — This was mentioned so many times I thought it was the new Twitter.

2 - Outsourcing — People are starting to move services off campus. GMail, Flickr, etc. 3 schools recently moved to GMail: Macalester, Hope, and Oberlin.

3 - Collaboration/Human Resources — The right people in the right place at the right time working together.

Tags: collaboration, google apps, nitle

I’ve been using Remember the Milk (RTM) on and off for a year or so. A number of really great features were available when I signed up but now one particular tool has been released that makes me smile - Integration with GMail and Google Apps.

I have opened in my browser a window for my personal email (GMail) and work email (Google Apps). I installed the RTM plugin and then selected which list should display in each. Personal for personal and work for work. Voila! I know what I need to do at home and work.

Another great tool… Applying a label can automatically create a new item in my RTM list. So if something comes in to my work email that I need to do all I need to to is apply a label. I will not only see the label but I will see a new item in my task list. Oh, right, it’s free. Wonderful. Simply wonderful.

Tags: lists, schedule, student, tasks, to do, website

From PC Mag:“Our list of the new and/or undiscovered Web sites that have grabbed our attention this year. You’ll see a large collection of Web applications and tech sites, excellent blogs, offbeat social networks, and, as always, a handful of addictive Flash games for those slow days at work.

Some of these sites are completely under the radar and get very little traffic. Others are hugely popular within a specific demographic. But all of them deserve to be in your bookmarks.”

Tags: application, help, social-network, website

It’s like Baskin-Robbins without the chocolate, or the vanilla, or, well, I guess it’s not like Baskin-Robbins at all.  But, it is an interesting option to scan files possibly infected - http://www.virustotal.com/

There is a plug-in for Windows users to send a file directly to VirusTotal. Very nice.

Tags: application, faculty, help, staff, student, virus, website

Tomorrow I will revisit the ”Greenifying SLC Info Session” in E1 at 1230.

The topic has exploded in the media and as such so have the tools and ideas. I will present and discuss what will turn out to be a small number of tips/tools available. If you are a part of the SLC community please stop by, an RSVP is not necessary.

Tags: discussion, faculty, greening, recycle, staff, student, sustainability, tips, tools

Yes, hai, and oui! All together now. That is what soup.io is all about.

“The easiest way to publish, collect, and share what you’re creating, thinking about, or discovering online.”

Say you use Flickr, YouTube, and LiveJournal on a regular basis. You post a really cool pic that you want all your friends to know about, the next day you upload a video of your cat getting bathed, and at the end of the week you write about a frustrating experience. Right. You want everyone to see everything right? Of course.

Your busy friends are clicking between every account. From this site, to that one, to another one trying to see what might be new. Or you have some savy friends that have RSSd all your feeds and therefore have an ever growing list of RSS feeds. Say your 5 friends have a Flick, YouTube, and LiveJournal account. That’s 15 accounts/RSS feeds.

No more. Soup.io brings it all together. I added my Flickr, YouTube, Digg submitted, Digg dugg, eBay, delicious, and my RSS feed from my personal web page to this page — http://garyploski.soup.io 

It’s all there with. No web hosting fee. The theme can be changed with a few clicks. Good at CSS? Hop to it within the theme settings tab. You’ll need only one other thing to bring it all together if you don’t like username.soup.io as your URI - a domain. ” If you own a domain, you can make it point to Soup.” That’s straight from the custom domain tab. Already have a site but you want to put soup.io on your site? Add the RSS feed into your site. Wham-o. You’ve added all your external account activity to your personal page.

Mash it all together and share with everyone your digital stone soup. It’s mmm mmm good.

Tags: , css, delicious, digg, domain, flickr, livejournal, mashup, rss, soup.io, youtube